The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.

I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

I think the biggest problem with 'industrial' architecture is that it's lost its sense of humanity. Minimalist stuff drains all the humanity out of it. That idea works great for the money thing, but it doesn't work great for the feeling thing.

I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.